A master at Dulwich College has called allegations of racist behaviour by Nigel Farage when he was a pupil at the top private school “profoundly distressing”.
Robert Milne wrote that “such behaviour is wholly incompatible with the values the college holds”, in a letter published by Sky News.
“What we can unequivocally state is that the behaviours described are entirely at odds with the Dulwich College of today,” the letter reads.
The remarks appear in a letter to Jean-Pierre Lihou, a former Dulwich pupil who has publicly accused the Reform UK leader of antisemitic and racist behaviour when they were at school together.
The Press Association has approached Dulwich College for comment.
Mr Farage said he was surprised by the master’s “uninformed comments”, while Reform UK called the allegations a “witch hunt”.
The Reform leader said: “I have not met or spoken to this master. So I am surprised by his uninformed comments in response to claims from nearly 50 years ago from politically motivated actors.
“If he is interested, I can show him the many messages that I have received from fellow pupils, including Jewish ones, that entirely contradict these allegations.”
A Reform spokesman said: “This witch hunt is merely an attempt to discredit Reform and Nigel Farage.
“Instead of debating Reform on the substance of our ideas and policies, the left-wing media and deeply unpopular Labour Party are now using 50-year-old smears in a last act of desperation. The British public see right through it.”
The Reform UK leader previously categorically denied he had ever racially abused people in a “hurtful or insulting” way in an interview with ITV.
Farage’s former classmates at Dulwich College had alleged he made pro-Hitler remarks, joked about gas chambers and put someone in detention for the colour of their skin.
Award-winning director and producer, Peter Ettedgui - who was 13 at the time - told the Guardian Farage told him “Hitler was right”, and “Gas them” before hissing to mimic the sound of gas chambers.
Another accuser said Farage was part of a youth organisation called the CCF and had taught songs to other members about gassing Jews.
Patrick Neylan, a 61-year-old editor, who was in the year below Farage claimed he sang the “gas’em” song at CCF camps. Tim France, 61, who was in the same school year as Farage, claimed he would routinely perform the Nazi “Sieg Heil” salute.
All these allegations have been dismissed by Reform UK as attempted smears.
In a tense ITV News interview last month, Farage was asked directly if he racially abused students at school, to which he replied: "No. This is 49 years ago, by the way, 49 years ago.
🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage responds to allegations that he made racist comments to his classmates at Dulwich College
— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) November 24, 2025
"I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way.... it's 49 years ago" pic.twitter.com/OLf1C2kNel
“Have I ever tried to take it out on any individual on the basis of where they're from? No."
When he was asked to state on the record that he did not racially abuse fellow pupils at school, he replied: "I would never, ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way."
To this, the interviewer responded: "That's not quite the same as not doing it."
Farage replied: "It's 49 years ago. It's 49 years."
When he was asked what difference that made, he replied: "I had just entered my teens. Can I remember everything that happened at school? No, I can't.
“Have I ever been part of an extremist organisation or engaged in direct, unpleasant personal abuse, genuine abuse on that basis? No."
The interviewer told Farage he had caveated this and was not quite ruling this out, before asking again if he had racially abused fellow pupils.
Mr Farage said: "Not with intent."
When pressed on the matter again, he said: "No, no, I have never, directly, really tried to go and hurt anybody."
No account has stated Farage holds the same opinions as an adult as those that have been claimed about him as a child, and accounts of other students do not include the comments recalled by Ettedgui.
In a statement responding to the allegations, a spokesperson for Reform said: “These allegations are entirely without foundation. The Guardian has produced no contemporaneous record or corroborating evidence to support these disputed recollections from nearly 50 years ago.
"It is no coincidence that this newspaper seeks to discredit Reform UK - a party that has led in over 150 consecutive opinion polls and whose leader bookmakers now have as the favourite to be the next Prime Minister.
"We fully expect these cynical attempts to smear Reform and mislead the public to intensify further as we move closer to the next election.”
